The Veldt Vocabulary Test

What's the missing word:

Their approach ____________ a switch somewhere and the nursery light flicked on when they came within ten feet of it.

• sensitized

• recede

• jaunt

• telepathic

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What does it mean to recede?

"...the walls began to purr and recede into crystalline distance..."

• a journey taken for pleasure

• causing to flow forth

• to pull back or move away or backward

• perplexed

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Which one below is a veldt?

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The lions were coming. And again George Hadley was filled with admiration for the mechanical genius who had conceived this room.

What does conceived mean?

• a journey

• have the idea for

• communicated about

• explained about

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What does it mean to take a 'jaunt'?

• a quick journey taken for pleasure

• a medicine to help you sleep

• a meal to have with family

• a date with a friend

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What does the word 'telepathic' mean?

• communicating with words

• communicating with your hands

• communicating with hugs

• communicating without apparent physical signals

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Remarkable how the nursery caught the telepathic emanations of the children’s minds and created life to fill their every desire.

What does 'emanations' mean here?

• words to come out

• thoughts to flow forth

• drawings to appear

• handwriting to look great

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What does it mean to wear off or die down?

• bemused

• telepathic

• subside

• engrossed

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which one is a mental illness that makes you behave in an unusual way?

• subside

• neurosis

• telepathic

• bemused

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

“I think we’d better get downstairs before those kids get ___________ with those beasts again.”

What word belongs in the blank?

• veldt

• recede

• subside

• engrossed

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4